Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The government, through the Department of Renewable Resources, is still prepared to entertain any viable proposal from the community of Fort Smith with regard to their stated continued interest in looking at bison ranching, provided that there is no

requirement for funding from the Government of the Northwest Territories who are still waiting for some proposal to illustrate to us that people are working together in the community of Fort Smith, set aside their differences to put forward a viable proposal and that the proposal would have some indication of how it would be funded in the interim and in the long term. When we receive such a proposal, we are happy to sit down to see what could be done. Thank you.